MY MUM'S RIP OFF EXPERIENCE

October 12, 2014
Elijah Ogidi-Olu
3 Comments

Hi everyone, this is
something I should have posted here a while ago but it just have kept skipping
my mind until I forcefully grasped my note pad today. What you're about to read is a
true story and it all happened in real time. Brace yourself! (*In most shoking's
voice*)... Lol!

This is so hilarious, it gets
me smiling every time I remember the events of that very cool Sunday evening
and asides the funny side, you could learn a thing or two from how my mum got
ripped off.

So we were chilling on a very
cool Sunday evening around 7:40pm thereabouts, the TV was off and the lengthy
conversations I have with my mum when its just both of us kicked in.

Fifteen minutes into the
convo, I remembered I had a few calls to make and just as I was about
requesting her permission to leave, her phone rang - perfect opportunity.

I quickly left to make the
calls (that took around 10-15mins), came back and saw my mum sending a text.
Phone in one hand, N100 mtn airtime in the other. Surrendering to a very
unusual curiosity, I asked who the credit was forand this was her very reply:

"Some road safety people
were the ones that called me when you left. They said an accident happened
around Lagos/Ibadan expressway, Ibafo precisely and they found my number in one
of the victims car. I don't have anybody going via that route though and I've
tried Layi's number (a family friend) it's not going through..."

"Ok. So what about the
card?"

"Ehen... They said I
should send credit so they'll load it on the victim's phone and be able to call
me with the person's number for identification and I should send the credit
urgently. I think N100 should be enough. It can't be anyone I know because God
is our protector. Let me not just be nonchalant about it you
understand?..."

I smiled and nodded.

"So I've sent the
credit. A part of me tells me something isn't right cos I don't think FRSC
people call victim's relatives to send credit. I told the person to buy credit
and load it, then call my number but he refused. That makes it even more fishy."

"Well, I owe you five
hundred naira airtime if the person sends any number. You should have given me
the N100 airtime." I knew my mum had just been ripped off and I just
couldn't help smiling but 100 bucks isn't really a big deal.

I sat and we continued gisting,
then her phone rang. After the conversation, my mum looked at me and said the
guy called to acknowledge getting the N100 airtime but immediately he loaded
the airtime, mtn wiped it - meaning the person must have been owing mtn before,
so I have to send another one.

Now the 419 pranks was
beginning to piss me off and I just took my mum's phone, got the number and
called it from my own phone.

"Hello?" A male
voice spoke from the other end.

"Guy howfar na?" I
replied.

"I dey"

"Where you dey?"

They were like three cos I
could hear like two different voices in the background. One was chuckling, the
other jokingly shouting 4-1-9.

So I blasted the guy, told
him to get a job and a life and stop blaming Nigeria's economy for his
predicaments cos he was like "It's your country's economy. Don't feel bad
cos you've just been ripped off (he thought I was also one of his definitely
numerous victims). And I should not call his number again.

I was very angry during the
phone conversation but couldn't help laughing afterwards.

The extents that some people
would go to rip others off. Planting fear peoples heart just you could gain an
extra N200 or N400 airtime. Lol!

So that's my mum's rip off
experience.

Thank you all on her behalf.

Oh yea, she said she called
the guy later and said if he lied about the auto accident just to collect her
hard earned money, then he should be expecting one of his family members to be
involved in an auto accident. Lol! See deep words.

All for the love of airtime.

Have you ever been ripped off? better or worse than my mum?... Please share your rip off experience. Send your story to admin@maturemindstalk.com

Hello. I'm Ogidi-Olu Elijah. A Creative Content Developer, Freelance writer and Blogger. I also help people manage their blogs via content management. Thanks for checking me out on MMT. Where, we talk with no holds barred. Got something for me? Kindly send me a mail. It's good to have you here. Let's have some fun!

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